It was such a wonderful surprise to see my good friend and highly respected reader MangoMom back on the site, if only temporarily to add her own greetings and positive healing thoughts to the ever growing list of well wishers for M's speedy and complete recovery.
My wife had her 60th birthday last Friday December 9th (I turned 59 on the same day) in a rather low key affair by most other people's standards. The family gathering to recognise this family milestone had to wait for several reasons too tedious to explain in a few clumsy words, until the following Sunday (yesterday).
We are currently in the two to three week planning stage of her radiotherapy treatment (she never thought that she would have permanent tattoos) which should if all indications are correct begin very early in the new year. Then we need to wait and see from there on with regards to the the most likely time schedule for her course of chemotherapy and surgery still to come later.
Although she is not currently receiving any active treatment for her illness, she is doing quite well both physically and emotionally, and we are both uncharacteristically calm and strangely optimistic in the face of the many challenges which we know still lie ahead of us.
There really must be something to the belief in the concentrated and combined power of so many people's prayers for my wife and her family.
As I can almost guarantee that if we had not had the support of so many well wishing internet friends as well as of those many religious/spiritually minded people praying for us here where we live in South Australia since hearing of her diagnosis, that by now we would have long ago basically fallen in a heap and given up on the whole idea that we will eventually get through this ordeal, but only as a team effort.
These are the times in our lives when the inherent strength of and to be found within the combined family unit if we just look hard and long enough becomes much more solid, real and of a practical consideration to us.
Please excuse me for thinking out loud on this public forum, but this thread has offered me one of the very few rare opportunities I have had up until now to talk about fears and feelings which only people who have either directly or indirectly been affected in some way by this disease (99.9% of the human population by my estimation) can ever hope to fully comprehend and identify with based upon their own experiences with C.
God bless you all and keep your prayers coming.
Namaste,
EoT
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PS: Here is an update about MangoMom once again offering free Akashic Readings on this forum. The news just keeps getting better and better.
http://mysticboard.org/vi ... 390#304390
Welcome back to your Mystic Boards family. You were sorely missed by all your friends, but now our time of waiting is at an end.
L&L,
EoT :smt006